Handwriting Chinese with Microsoft IME

Write Chinese with your mouse or digitizing
tablet and choose the right character with Loqu8 iCE.

Drawing Chinese

After installing the Microsoft Chinese IME, configure the
IME Pad to recognize Chinese handwriting. Don't have a
digitizing pad? IME Pad also lets you write characters with
your mouse, too. These instructions are for Microsoft Windows 7; other
version of Windows will be similar.

From your Windows desktop:

1. Open your email or document that will receive the
Chinese text
2. From the Windows language bar, choose
CH Chinese (Simplified, PRC)
3. Click Hand Writing (CH) and draw the character

4. As you draw the character, the candidate list in the
center panel will show a list of potential matches
5. Viewing the meaning of each character by hovering your
mouse over the candidate entries. Loqu8 iCE will show an
enlarged view of the character, its meaning and Pinyin. If
AutoPronounce is enabled, it will also be read aloud. The
Loqu8 Chinese-English dictionary contains the most popular
100,000+ characters and phrases. Radical fragments and
obsolete characters are not supported.

Tip: If hovering over candidate entries
causes the IME Pad to blink or disappear, restart your
computer before using IME Pad.

5. Choose Hand Writing (CH)
and click the
Add -> button
6. Verify that Hand Writing (CH) has been added to the list
of Current Applets and click Close